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Module 9: Usability and User Experience

Welcome to our mid-week transition from project management into UX – user experience, and usability! I am so thrilled to be presenting this content to you; I have not seen this in many digital libraries curricula, and yet UX is a key component to the systems we develop, work within and ask users to navigate! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts. lsteckervitz and spd, this week’s discussion leaders, have started us off with some _great_ questions, so be sure to check out her post.

Also, stay tuned for a screencast on Learn this week with information about Assignment 2. Thanks!

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2 responses to “Module 9: Usability and User Experience”

How fortuitous! I have been looking at jobs, internships and fellowships out there (in anticipation of an August grad date) and I have been seeing UX and UI all over the place. This is the first it really crossed my radar so of course I had to explore it some more.
In order to not seem like a complete moron when I go on an interview, I have started exploring some reference materials on the subject. I found the following:
-UX/UI Bibliography – free on Kindle
-A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making (kind of pricey)
– Communicating the User Experience: A Practical Guide for Creating Useful UX Documentation
I haven’t had time to dive into any of them except for the bibliography, but I am hoping to get to them when the semester’s word winds down.

Tammy, so glad this is so timely for you! That is _great_ news. For those of you who enjoy this week’s readings, you might want to look into Peter Morville’s title on O’Reilly, “Ambient Findability.” Not strictly about UX, per se, but illuminating and so very interesting.

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Welcome to participants of LIS 879: Digital Libraries, and all those stopping by. On this site, members of LIS 879 will be hosting discussions about topics in digital librarianship, as well as sharing links and pointers to current related issues. Please stop by and get involved as we talk among ourselves this semester!